Weekend update with some of the photo's I didn't get to
uploading on the various social platforms.

Speaking of social platforms I've updated and re-energized my
Instagram. If for no other reason than it's kind of amusing
applying filters for no good reason. Still working on tagging
things so they get at least some views. I'm going a bit crazy
keeping up with everything (this site, twitter, facebook etc), but
I'm getting a grasp on socializing my photo's to widen the audience
a (...)

I started this site back in 2012 or so just as a way to have
better control over display of my photos but also to stay fresh
with CSS, HTML, PHP, MySQL etc. (Ok less so the latter two as
they're handled by Zen-Photo but still I dabble!). Two years
ago in March of 2016 I generally stopped updating the
site.

I wish I could say why, and that I could explain everything
going on at the time but it'd just be too much detail. I will
say this though, Chantix (the quit smoking (...)

So as you can probably already see I've updated the layout and
look of the site again. I like this one much better as it
conforms better across browsers/resolutions and mobile versus
desktop so hopefully it sticks around. At least until I get
bored with it and feel like tinkering with the css and php
again.

Also I realized I was linking my Facebook 'wrong' in a sense so
I created a landing page for the site on there as well, basically a
place to post updates and the like rather (...)

So I know I'm terrible at updating the site and updating this
'blog' as it were but generally I only really want to post when
I've got good content really so sometimes I spend days agonizing in
post about "does this look right?" or "were these the colors I
saw?"

I've been having some issues with horizon lineups BUT I believe
it's due to me using back button focus on the AE/Lock button
instead of the shutter release. My thumb being there poking
me in the forehead is causing (...)

Was feeling in a bit of a slump lately, found myself though in a
position to acquire a good but used D7100 D7000 (body).
With it and the new Tamron 18-200 and my other various F-Mount
Lenses, I've refound a joy in photography I was starting miss by
hitting the limits of where I could go with the 3100 (a fine camera
mind you!).

Hoping now to make updates and uploads a more common practice as
well. I was sorely behind these last two (...)

Well winter's finally getting over with, the snow's all melted
for the most part.

Hoping to get out much more often but I've also ordered several
components to allow me to shoot indoors more readily. Some
off camera flash equipment and stands et al. Hopefully it
allows me to expand my ability to shoot at home on the bad weather
days when going out just isn't in the cards. Here's a short
list, I'll probably update with links later.

{Edited 7/19} So I went about the semi laborius task of redoing
the site design, adding some icons, changing the font and
layout. Basically I just wanted to make it a bit more mobile
friendly while still keeping the same look and feel. I like
the results so far though I'm still working on some scaling issues
(if you browse in vertical on your phone things get a bit stretched
but are still functional and appear fine).

I haven't done many updates to the design simply because editing
(...)

So for work I received a Nokia Lumia
1020 (yes it's the yellow one), you know the one with the
'41MP' (round) sensor. So far I've taken a few shots with it
but have not really mucked with the large format files. You have to
use the built in Nokia camera app to have it take one, it creates a
basic 10mp jpg and a super huge 7000/4000 'hi res' jpg as well.

So I've been
mulling what to do with this little web log section (it's built
into Zen Photo which is what runs the galleries/albums). One
thing I don't think I've done yet is give a small shout out to the
Nikon D3100 (full name is "Nikon
D3100,D3200,D5100,D5200,D7000,D7100 & open to
all.") group on flickr that I joined. I've
posted and read threads in (...)